Curse The Mainframe - Chapter 409

This… this…

Was this not like a carbon copy of himself? The only thing different was the eye colour. It was exactly the same as his beloved.

Though he had heard all about Alec from his wife, he only knew about the things that he had accomplished, as well as the things that had happened in his childhood. He’d never taken it to heart. Wasn’t it just a son?

At the time, he thought that he didn’t regret anything, and that it was enough for him to hear about his son second hand. After all, it wasn’t like they knew each other…

Yet, when he saw him now, something strange gushed out of his heart.

Aeden was a Sin through and through, and he exhibited all the signs that Sins did.

He came across and cold-blooded and bloodthirsty, and he was more inclined to get into a fight rather than talk things out. He didn’t make connections easily, and they were all kept behind a wall.

The only exception to this was the soft spot he had was his wife. Even his parents didn’t inspire as much fondness in him. While he treated them well, there was still a slight distance between them even if it wasn’t the distance between him and a normal person.

Their entire clan was like that, after all. It was considered the norm here.

Sins who got married to each other were generally carefree and had a lot of freedom in their life, not caring overtly about one thing or the other.

The only thing that Sins held dear to them was usually that one obsession they overtook in their life.

As such, Aeden really expected the same situation to happen when he looked at his son.

Even if it was his biological child, it wasn’t like he’d ever seen him before. He even expected that he wouldn’t feel much of anything, just like he was looking at a stranger.

Little did he expect that his son would inspire such feelings in him as well.

Perhaps it was because of his eyes. When he stared at it, he was instantly reminded of his beloved’s eyes.

There was a sense of fondness that was instantly born when he met this teen’s eyes, and it was not missed by the sharp-eyed Annalise, who was secretly smiling at the side.

Both father and son were both so stubborn, sharing the same temper.

Her son was actually less stubborn than his father, and he was more willing to be flexible if you could convince him, so he was likely the easier party to deal with.

She’d been secretly worried that her darling wouldn’t take to Alec, but that didn’t look like it was the case.

But when she looked at Alec, she instantly despaired. Instead, it looked like the problem was going to come from Alec’s side…

Still, though there was a hint of alienation in Alec’s eyes, he didn’t overly reject Aeden’s presence.

This meant that he still had some feelings that were unresolved regarding his father, right?

Annalise suddenly felt that she’d done the right thing when she faced her pain and sadness and showed Alec his father’s photos. At that time, Alec had also felt a connection to this man that he hadn’t seen before in his entire life.

At that time, she had only felt relieved and nothing else, but now, she was relieved for a different reason.

Though Alec had grown up and had his own thoughts now, she didn’t want them to be alienated from each other, so she said, “Alec, you should bring your familiars and your friends with you. Let’s go home.”

Alec gave Annalise a deep look, but he nodded.

Aeden made as if he was about to speak, but Annalise gently stopped him. She looked at her silly husband with affection. He was still too rash at times. Now wasn’t the right time for him to hastily make introductions.

If he did that, then Alec was more likely to lash out. Alec had always been a precocious child, and now that he was a teenager, this was the prime time for him to be rebellious against a parent’s influence.

Things had to be taken slowly.

Alec woke Ye Sha up, who rubbed his eyes sleepily.

He jumped when he noticed that there was an additional person staring at him with fierce red eyes, as if he wanted to eat him alive. How did he actually not react at all to a foreign presence?

Ye Sha hurriedly carried Two and Three, while Alec picked up his small familiars. They looked like stuffed toys in his arms, appearing small and cute. They were fluffy and adorable, and didn’t quite seem like something that a male teenager would usually carry around on his own volition.

Aeden held back his need to get acquainted with his son and led the way out.

Annalise smiled indulgently, hanging back to squeeze her son’s hand. “Try to get to know your father, alright? He’s a bit of a rough person, but he’s warm at heart.”

Alec shot her a disbelieving look, and Annalise covered her mouth and laughed softly.

“It’s true. I’m not lying. At least, he’s warm to the people that he loves. Isn’t that enough?”

Alec nodded quietly. He would wait and see.

Outside of the cave, he could see that this realm wasn’t so different from the one that he’d just left.

The grass was still the same colour, as was the sky.

The only thing was… he had yet to see a single soul.

Alec took the initiative to speak up. “What’s the difference between this realm and our realm?”

Aeden hurriedly answered, “The main difference between the two realms is that in this realm, things like Magitypes and Societypes aren’t as heavily emphasized on. There aren’t many stereotypes about them, and they just help us have a guideline about the path we should go down in cultivation.”

With anyone else, Aeden would have just kept a cold face and kept his mouth shut, but he seemed to be currying favour with his only son.

“Ah, there’s one big difference though,” he said after pausing a while.

Alec was curious despite himself.

“Sins here are really…” Aeden paused, trying to think about how to describe it. “We’re in the minority, but we’re also really revered.”

Alec was confused. “Revered?”

People actually revered sins here? What a big difference this was. Back in the Kaoriht continent, they couldn’t have been more miserable, yet here they were revered? How in the world had that gone down?

How in the world had it developed to this stage?

Didn’t people think that they were too bloodthirsty, too savage?

But here…

Aeden nodded lightly, his face looking forward. But he looked at his son out of the corner of his eye. “It was a shock for me when I accidentally went through the portal for the first time and met your mother. It was even more shocking when I discovered that Sins were abhorred over there.”

Alec was truly confused. He still didn’t understand. Why was it that his mother and father had been split up before he’d been born?

They really didn’t seem to have any problems between them at all. Was it because there were external factors that had stopped them from being together?

It was at this moment that Ye Sha dragged him backwards like a ghost.

“Hey… so, uh. Your daddy…”

Alec glared at Ye Sha. Could he not make it sound so disgusting…?

“Your father… guess what?”

Alec paused abruptly. Don’t tell him…?

Ye Sha looked at him with a hint of schadenfreude. “That’s right.”

Alec’s eyes almost pierced the back of his father’s head. Why?!

The System was instantly speechless. What kind of probability was this?!

Because the son was a Main Character, the father was also a Main Character? That didn’t make any sense!

Alec paused for a bit. True, Dominique and his father were also Main Characters, but…

That didn’t mean that it was that common!

With the way that his parents were dramatically separated, yet their love remaining true was indeed something that seemed like a Main Character, but…

It only made Alec’s face change several times in disgust. He never wanted to think about how his parents made him…

Or the dramatic love story that they went through…